Coercive
Practices Range from Forced Abortion and Sterilization in China To Laws
Impeding Women from Obtaining Abortion Services in the United States

Forcing
a woman to terminate a pregnancy she wants is wrong, and so is forcing her to
continue a pregnancy that she does not want, concludes a new
Guttmacher Institute policy analysis. Each case violates women's basic
human rights: the right to decide freely whether and when to bear a child and
the right to have that decision respected by the government. . . .